Faculty Senate Archives
Minutes 2-13-03

Lewis-Clark State College
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
Feb. 13, 2003
SUB 143

Present:  Chris Riggs,Alan Marshall, and Dave Thiessen, Social Sciences;  Matt Brady, Mike Vernon, and Tris Utschig, Natural Sciences; Cheryl Dunlop and Kim Flottemesch, OBT; David McCullough, John Dunn, and Erick Cummings, T & I; Jim Tarter, Kathie Wilcox, Larry Haapanen, and Okey Goode, Humanities; Leanne Parker and Wayne Carroll, Education; Sheila Watkins and Mary Lou Robinson, Nursing; Chuck King, Business; Lynne Bidwell, Library; Rita Morris, Administration; Diane Johnson, Registrar; Betsy Cowin and Melinda Van Horn, ASLCSC Senate;  and Richard Moore, Chair.

Absent: Lori McCaan, OBT;  Michele Darcy’Evans, Nursing;  Clay Robinson, Education

1.  Call to Order:  Meeting was called to order at 3:15 by Dr. Richard Moore, Chair. 

2.  Introduction of Visitors:  There were no visitors to introduce.

3.  Approval of Minutes:  Minutes of Jan. 30 were approved as amended.

4.  Old Business:
There was discussion of the memorandum from the Provost with the proposed changes in policies and practices handed out at the last Senate meeting.  Dave McCullen mentioned that eliminating the IP grade puts a burden on the T & I faculty.  Faculty expressed concerns about students taking courses without having passed the pre-requisite courses, and seem to favor a policy that would allow the student being dis-enrolled from the course.  The faculty do not know that they should have to police making sure that the students get dis-enrolled, however.  There were concerns about courses being dropped from the catalogue after not being taught for five years.  Some faculty thought they should not be dropped if they were not being taught only for lack of funding.  It was decided that the Senators should continue to discuss these policies with their divisions and we will discuss them again at our next meeting.

 5.  New Business: 
Richard announced that there was a good turnout for the JFAC town meeting in Lewiston.  There were about a dozen faculty and administrators, a few students, and lots of community members filling the TCC to standing room only.  The JFAC brought interesting handouts with information on the budget and income figures from last year and projections for this year.  Projected necessary cuts unless taxes are raised and suggested ways to raise taxes were presented. Richard then announced that the Faculty Welfare Fund steering committee met and decided that first we need to generate some money for the fund.  We thought we should get a building representative for each building to collect the textbook donations and get them to the collection room in the Administration building.  The book representative will buy the textbooks and will give the faculty a tax donation receipt if the faculty counted the book as income.  The sale of the books should generate income for the fund.  Other ideas for generating income were discussed by the steering committee.  Mechanisms for disbursing the fund will need to be decided upon, and a committee to disburse the funds will need to be set up once funds are generated.

a.       Faculty Association Treasury Report:  $2361

b.        Reports:                                                    

• Administrative Procedures – Betsy Van Clief, Mary Lou Robinson, and Patricia Keith have completed revising the drafts of the five faculty policies and they will be distributed to the divisions for comment on Tues., Feb. 24.  The Administrative Procedures minutes were accepted as written
   
• Budget Liaison – the committee met and set dates for future meetings.  Next Wed. they will meet with the Budget Officer and an administrator and begin detailed work.  Their report  was accepted.
   
• Curriculum –  The Senate approved the Curriculum report as submitted and thus the following were approved:  A03-015a, A03-055b, A03-057a to A03-087a and T03-101a, T03-102a, and T03-120a.
   
•  Faculty Affairs – no report
   
• Faculty Development – no report
   
• Provost – 1)  Dean Froehlich sends his thanks for all the cards and gifts that faculty have sent.  He is waiting for tests to see if he is in remission, and if he is he will hope for a bone marrow transplant.  He is home now.  2)  Next Tues. LCSC receives an exec from U of I on loan for the rest of the semester.  Ken Harris will be here to help with planning, and he will work in Rita’s office, and there will be no cost to LCSC for his services.  3)  On April 11 the visitor from the NW Association of Schools and Colleges will be here – the preliminary report is due soon and will be on the web for all to read soon.  He will send his questions two weeks before he comes.  4)  There are budget concerns since the January state revenue was short of projections.  We have been asked how we can help with selling bonds to build our activity center.  5)  We were told we can release the money we were holding for sabbaticals and one more sabbatical was funded for Chris Norden.  6)  In terms of faculty development, it was decided we should save some money for Fullbright scholarships.
   
• Student Affairs – no report.
   
• Technology –  They have met monthly.  There is grant money from the state to improve the classroom technology infrastructure, and divisions and faculty on campus had to apply for the money.  The committee reviewed 21 proposals and approved 12 of them and IT is getting ready to implement those 12 proposals now.  The other 9 proposals may get implemented under network improvements eventually.  The Annex classrooms and some other classrooms are getting more A-V technology equipment.  The committee has done short and long range planning for replacement and updating needs as well as other technology needs they are exploring for our campus and they shared those with the Senate.  The Senate approved the report.

Good of the Order:    Nothing brought forward at this time.

Adjournment:  Meeting was adjourned at 4:15 by Richard Moore, Chair.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Sheila Watkins, Secretary

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